Friday Links 22-20

Acid House flyer with smiley illustration For some reason I have no urbanism topics or podcasts! Dave Kellogg brings an interesting perspective on leadership levels. It is an old article but still valid. He seems to be going against the stream in general. Worth a follow! Leadership Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - interesting perspective I agree on What we learned in studying the most effective founders - mostly as expected, but this is interesting: “While most people would expect self-confidence to grow with time, our data suggests the most effective founders are not nearly as confident as the least effective founders are.” ...

17 June 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-19

Friday Links 22-19

A short one this week. Some fun technical reads on Meta’s cache invalidation and Linux pipes. Leadership Valuing experience [Podcast] - another great discussions by two coaches TBM 25/52: In Defense of Frameworks (and Process) - there are always frameworks and they make life easier and more predictable CTO Craft MiniCon - The Complete Hiring Arc (In Under 3 hours!) - Full event [YouTube] - recording of a recent hiring conference ...

10 June 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-16

Friday Links 22-16

I skipped last week because I was on the bicycle. Sorry about the length today and the many podcasts. I had a lot of listening time. Leadership TBM 22/52: The Perfect Manager/Leader - “I see people putting themselves under so much pressure to be the perfect manager or leader.” Radical Candor S4. Ep 7: Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Russ Laraway [Podcast] - this was a good episode of that podcast. I like that he doesn’t care about the difference between leadership and management any more :-) ...

20 May 2022 · 5 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-14

Friday Links 22-14

The paper about traffic safety messages is very surprising and interesting. If you don’t measure your change you might make the wrong assumptions. Leadership Visualizing Team Dependencies with a Team API - aka team agreement Founding Uber SRE. - I am pretty sure he is too modest. Interesting that hiring was so fast back then. Episode #4: Nothing In Nothing Out - I never seen a good use of Jira for metrics, maybe something to aim for at $NEXTJOB ...

29 April 2022 · 2 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 22-11

Friday Links 22-11

Catching up with podcast. The ones about Coaching Habit, Brian Kernighan and The Pedestrian are very good. Leadership Tackling bottlenecks at scale-ups [Podcast] - Podcast with a summary of the idea behind the content I shared recently. How To Do Less - about hard prioritization “First, you need to lower everybody’s expectations, ASAP.” Why greater autonomy is the future of software development - release of the Atlassian State of the Developer Report [PDF] ...

8 April 2022 · 5 min · Christof Damian